Aeris or Aerith?

[Loony BoB]

The ports are simply them trying to cash in, I doubt anyone actually tinkered with the game beyond making it portable.

They changed multiple dialogue entries and fixed poor grammar, etc. They decided not to change the name 'Aeris' in the manual or the game itself despite this being far, far easier than going through the dialogue and spellchecking it.

And Loony BoB, if Aerith had never appeared in another game then her name would still be Aerith because the people at Square Enix said so and they're Word of God.

I'll have to agree to disagree with you on that "Word of God" thing. I mean, these people can say a lot of things but I always disagree on "Word of God" kicking in. I definitely believe that if no further games were ever created following FFVII that nobody would have given two craps what SE said about "Oh, that name was intended to be Aerith! Oops!" I mean, do you think Terra's real name is Tina? Because she was intended to be Tina until the translation team decided to switch it to Terra after tester feedback. Again, translation team making decisions, just as they did with Aeris.

I don't think any of those who are set in their minds over what her name should be in the game are ever going to change our opinions. But facts point out that her name in the game and in the game manual is Aeris. And that, like it or not (including the Dev's point of view), makes it officially her name in Final Fantasy VII.

"This guy are sick" is also an official line as far as I'm concerned, though, even though they corrected it in later releases. I find it great! It's basically Aeris getting her words confused - I mean, it happens to the best of us in real life. Why not have characters in the game suffer the same way?

The PC re-release has Aerith

No, it doesn't. It's still Aeris.